MAGGIE L. POPKINCURRICULUM VITAE

Department of Art History and ArtCase Western Reserve University

Mather House 318, 11201 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7110T: (216) 368-3081 F: (216) 368-4681 E: maggie.popkin@case.edu

EDUCATION Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Ph.D., History of Art and Archaeology, May 2012 (dissertation: “The Triumphal Route in Republican and Imperial Rome: Architecture, Experience, and Memory”)

M.A., History of Art and Archaeology, January 2007Williams College

B.A., History of Art, June 2003; magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Case Western Reserve University

2018-present: Associate Professor of Art History, secondary appointment in Classics2013-2018: Assistant Professor of Art History, secondary appointment in Classics2017-present: Robson Junior Professor

New York UniversitySummer 2012: Adjunct Professor of Record, “History of Western Art I,” Department of Art HistoryFall 2007-Spring 2008: Teaching Assistant, “History of Western Art I,” Department of Art History

University of HartfordFall 2009: Adjunct Professor of Record, “Introduction to the History of Western Art I,” Department of Art History

PUBLICATIONS Books (peer-reviewed)The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity (Cambridge

University Press, 2016).

Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)“Urban Images in Glass from the Late Roman Empire: The Souvenir Flasks of Puteoli and

Baiae.” American Journal of Archaeology 122.3 (July 2018), 427-462 (additional supplementary content on AJA Online).

“The Parthian Arch of Augustus and its Legacy: Memory Manipulation in Imperial Rome and Modern Scholarship” in Afterlives of Augustus: AD 14-2014, edited by Penelope J. Goodman (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 271-293.

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“Stone Objects,” in Bonna D. Wescoat et al., Samothrace: Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, Volume 9, The Monuments of the Eastern Hill (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017), 444-452.

“Souvenirs and Memory Manipulation in the Roman Empire: The Glass Flasks of Ancient

Pozzuoli,” in Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture, ed. László Munteán, Liedeke Plate, and Anneke Smelik. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies 102 (Routledge, 2017), 45-61.

“Symbiosis and Civil War: The Audacity of the Arch of Constantine.” Journal of Late Antiquity 9.1 (Spring 2016), 42-88.

“Decorum and the Meanings of Materials in Triumphal Architecture of Republican Rome.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 74.3 (September 2015), 289-311.

“Samothracian Influences at Rome: Cultic and Architectural Exchange in the Second Century B.C.E.” American Journal of Archaeology 119.3 (July 2015), 343-373.

“Roosters, Columns, and Athena on Early Panathenaic Prize Amphoras: Symbols of a New Athenian Identity,” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 81.2 (April-June 2012), 207-235.

Book ReviewsReview of J. A. Latham, Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome: The Pompa

Circensis from the Republic to Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Journal of Roman Studies (forthcoming November/December 2018; First View available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435818000394).

“The Roman Triumph and Triumphal Monuments During the 1st c. B.C.” (review of C. H. Lange, Triumphs in the Age of Civil War: The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition [Bloomsbury, 2016]), Journal of Roman Archaeology 30 (2017), 584-591.

“Roman Visions of Egypt” (review of M. Swetnam-Burland, Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture [Cambridge University Press, 2015]), Classical Review 67.1 (April 2017), 278-281.

“Memoria Romana” (review of K. Galinsky, ed., Memoria Romana: Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory [University of Michigan Press, 2014]), Classical Review 65.2 (October 2015), 526-528.

Works in Progress “Art, Architecture, and False Memory in the Roman Empire: A Cognitive Perspective” (9,000-

word essay invited for publication in the Routledge Companion to Classics and Cognitive Theory, edited by Peter Meineck, in production).

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Object Memory: Souvenirs and Memorabilia in the Roman World (book manuscript in preparation for submission to Cambridge University Press, currently 75,000 words).

“Festival Souvenirs in Roman Germany: Transforming Ephemeral Experience into Tangible Memory” (8,000 word essay invited for publication in Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods: Conversations in Theory and Method, edited by Sandra Blakely and Megan Daniels, Lockwood Press).

“The Roman Triumph: Perceived History in Architecture and Ritual” (article manuscript in preparation).

Media Publications“Roman Memory (Part I).” Classics Confidential Podcast, posted January 11, 2018. Interviewed

for podcast on Roman memory. https://classicsconfidential.co.uk/2018/01/11/memory1/.

“The Emperor as Philosopher, probably Marcus Aurelius.” ArtLens Interview for the Cleveland Museum of Art (recorded December 17, 2013).

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS Case Western Reserve University W. P. Jones Faculty Development Award, 2018National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2017-2018 (project title: “Souvenirs,

Memorabilia, and the Construction of Knowledge in the Roman Empire”)Case Western Reserve University W. P. Jones Faculty Development Award, 2017Case Western Reserve University Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Faculty Research

Travel Grant, 2017Case Western Reserve University Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship,

2017National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, principal collaborator,

2015-2018 (project title: “From the Vantage of the Victory: The Performative Heart of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace,” project director: Bonna D. Wescoat, Emory University)

Archaeological Institute of America Publication Subvention for The Architecture of the Roman Triumph, 2015

Case Western Reserve University W. P. Jones Faculty Development Award, 2015College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award for The Architecture of the

Roman Triumph, 2014College Art Association Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award for The Architecture of the Roman

Triumph, 2014Case Western Reserve University W. P. Jones Faculty Development Award, 2014Case Western Reserve University Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities International Travel to

Conference Grant, 2014Samothrace Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by the Emory Mellon Digital Scholarship

Commons Grant, hosted at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2012-2013Max Planck Institute Memoria Romana International Doctoral Fellowship, 2010-2012Fulbright Graduate Student Grant to Italy, 2010-2011Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2005-2012

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Summer Research Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2009Antonina S. Ranieri International Scholars Fund Travel Grant, Center for Ancient Studies, New

York University, 2009Connoisseurs Circle Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2008-2009Summer Research Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2008Floyd L. Moreland Scholarship, Latin/Greek Institute, City University of New York-Graduate

Center, 2007Karen and Leo Gutmann Foundation Award, 2005-2007Shelby White and Leon Levy Travel Award, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2006Karl E. Weston Prize for Distinction in Art, Williams College, 2003

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK Samothrace, Greece

Senior archaeologist, NYU-Emory excavations, archaeological field research on the monuments of the Eastern and Western Hills of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, 2008-present

Selinunte, ItalyTeam member, NYU excavations, archaeological field research on Temple B, 2007

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES “The Beforelives of Votives: Prospective Memory and Religious Experience in the Roman

Empire,” Archaeological Institute of America and Society for Classical Studies Annual Meetings, San Diego, January 2019 (upcoming).

“Architecture in Miniature: Souvenirs and Memory in Ancient Rome,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, St. Paul, April 2018.

“Object Memory: Souvenirs and Memorabilia in the Roman Empire,” AIA-Toronto Society, April 2018 (invited lecture).

“Spectacular Souvenirs: Sports Memorabilia in the Roman Empire,” John Carroll University, Miller Lecture in Classics, February 2018 (invited lecture).

“Spectacular Souvenirs: Sports Memorabilia in the Roman Empire,” AIA-Toledo Society, Dorothy M. Price Memorial Lecture, January 2018 (invited lecture).

“Urban Images in Glass from the Late Roman Empire: The Souvenir Flasks of Puteoli and Baiae,” Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Department of History of Art and Architecture, December 2017 (invited lecture).

“Religious Souvenirs in and between the Cities of the Roman Empire,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference, Boston, November 2017 (invited lecture, part of the panel “Ritual and Religion on the City Streets of the Empire” sponsored by the Archaeology of Religion in the Roman World Section).

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“Object Memory: Souvenirs and Memorabilia in the Roman Empire,” Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, November 2018 (invited lecture).

“The Roman Triumph: Perceived History in Architecture and Ritual,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Glasgow, June 2017.

“Performance, Memory, and Community in the Region of the Western Hill of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace,” École thématique international: Formation à l’expertise en Architecture Antique, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, March 2017 (invited lecture, via video conference).

“Spectacular Souvenirs: Sports Memorabilia in the Roman Empire,” Case Western Reserve University, December 2016 (invited lecture, part of the Art Talk series).

“The Roman Triumph or Triumph over Romans? The Impact of Civil Wars on the Architecture of the Triumphal Route in Ancient Rome,” Cleveland Archaeological Society, May 2015 (invited lecture).

“The Roman Triumph in its Urban Context: Building Memories and Identities in Republican Rome,” McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, April 2015 (invited lecture, part of the lecture series “Time, Memory, and Identity”).

“Beyond Gladiators: Performance, Memory, and the Roman Triumph in the Colosseum,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 2015.

“The Imperial Roman Triumph and the Architecture of Spectacle,” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2015.

“The Parthian Arch of Augustus and its Legacy: Memory Manipulation in Imperial Rome and Modern Scholarship,” Commemorating Augustus: A Bimillennial Re-evaluation (Conference), University of Leeds, UK, August 2014.

“Souvenirs of a City: The Glass Flasks of Puteoli and the Construction of Metropolitan Identity in the Roman World,” Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture (Conference), Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 2014.

“Souvenirs of a City: The Glass Flasks of Ancient Pozzuoli,” Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, St. Louis, April 2014.

“Marble, Stucco, and the Meaning of Material in the Porticus Metelli and Temple of Jupiter Stator in Ancient Rome,” Universities Art Association of Canada/l’Assocation d’art des universités du Canada Annual Conference, Banff, Canada, October 2013.

“The Triumphal Route under Septimius Severus: Monuments and Memory in Ancient Rome,” invited lecture presented at the University of Maryland, College Park, March 2013; Case

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Western Reserve University, February 2013; Washington University in St. Louis, February 2013.

“The Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman Forum: Memory Distortion in Imperial Rome and Modern Scholarship,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 2013.

“Samothracian Influences at Rome: Monuments and Cultural Exchange in the 2nd Century B.C.,” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 2013.

“Monuments and Memory Distortion along the Severan Triumphal Route,” Memoria Romana Colloquium, Austin, April 2012.

“The Roman Triumph in the Circus Maximus: Architecture, Experience, and Memory,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, March 2012.

“The Roman Triumph in its Urban Context,” Latium Vetus Program of Tufts University and Università di Roma-Tor Vergata, Rome, June 2011 (invited lecture).

“The Triumphal Route in Republican and Imperial Rome: Architecture, Memory, and Roman Identities,” Memoria Romana Colloquium, Rome, October 2010.

“Roosters, Columns, and Athena on Panathenaic Prize Amphoras,” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2009.

“Manubial Temples and the Aesthetics of Identity Formation in Republican Rome,” Historicisms and Formalisms Conference, Princeton University, April 2008 (shortened version also presented at the Symposium on Forms of Seeing, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, May 2008).

“The Manubial Temples of Republican Rome: Urban Space, Architecture, and Cultural Identity,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, SUNY-Binghamton, April 2007.

“Puteoli Reconsidered: The Augustan Temple, the Glass Flasks, and Roman Identity in Ancient Pozzuoli,” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2007.

SESSIONS ORGANIZED “Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Material and Textual

Culture,” joint colloquium organized for the Archaeological Institute of America and Society for Classical Studies Annual Meetings, San Diego, January 2019 (upcoming).

“Roman Processions Reconsidered: Physical Space and Material Contexts,” colloquium organized jointly with Susan Ludi Blevins for the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2015.

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“The Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace: Architecture, Cult, and Connections,” colloquium organized jointly with Bonna D. Wescoat and Amy Sowder Koch for the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 2013.

“Remembering Material Culture: Archaeology and the Science of Memory,” paper session organized jointly with Susan Ludi Blevins for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Annual U.S. Meeting, Buffalo, May 2012.

COURSES TAUGHT ARTH 101 Art History I: From Pyramids to PagodasARTH 230 Ancient Roman Art and ArchitectureARTH 325/425 Art at the Crossroads of Religion: Polytheistic, Christian, and Islamic Art

in AntiquityARTH 329/429 Marvels of Rome: Monuments and Their Decoration in the Roman EmpireARTH 398 Independent Study in Art HistoryARTH 512 Graduate Seminar in Ancient Art: Portraiture in the Roman WorldFSSY 169 What’s in a Face? Portraits, Power, and Identity in Ancient RomeUSSY 291L Art and Violence in Ancient Rome

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE Committee on Educational Programs, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016-2019 (chair, fall 2016)Co-chair, Faculty Parents Group, 2017-present

This university-wide group with over 140 faculty members provides moral support, resources, and advocacy for issues related to families at CWRU.

Search Committee for Chair and Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Art, 2016-2017

Undergraduate Advisor and Academic Representative, Department of Art History and Art, 2014-present

Organizer, Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art, Department of Art History and Art, 2013-presentFirst-Year Student Advisor, 2015-2016Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Art History and Art, 2014-2015Graduate Program Requirements Committee, Department of Art History and Art, 2013-2015Curriculum Committee, Department of Art History and Art, 2013-2014 (chair, 2013-2014)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Board Member, Cleveland Archaeological Society, 2015-presentProgram Chair and Steering Committee Co-Chair for the 2017 Annual Conference, Midwest Art

History Society, 2016-2017Occasional manuscript reviewer, American Journal of Archaeology, 2013-present

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Archaeological Institute of AmericaClassical Association of the Middle West and SouthCollege Art AssociationMidwest Art History SocietySociety of Architectural Historians

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Society for Classical Studies

LANGUAGES French, reading and speaking knowledgeItalian, reading and speaking knowledgeGerman, reading knowledgeSpanish, reading knowledgeLatin, reading knowledgeAncient Greek, reading knowledge

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